Write the first draft for Exercise 8.7 (Persuasive Request) on page 252. Write as an email with an appropriate subject line.

Task: write a persuasive request email asking your instructor (or supervisor or manager) to write you a letter of recommendation for a job application, grant, scholarship. Or graduate school application. Provide all relevant information to make it easy to write a terrific letter. Explain any attachments.

As a student, you will need letters of recommendation to find a job, to apply for a scholarship or grant, or to enter graduate school. Naturally, you will consider asking one or several of your college instructors. You talk to a senior you know to find out how to get a busy professor to write you an effective letter. You find ark has the following basic advice for you:

·         Ask only instructors who have had the opportunity to observe your performance and will still remember your fondly. Two to five years after you attended a course of 20 to 40 students, your teachers many not recall you at all.

·         Contact only instructors who can sing your praises. If your grades were poor, the endorsement won’t be glowing. Some instructors refuse to write to write recommendations.

 

Make it easy for your instructor to agree to your request and to write a solid letter promptly by following these guidelines:

·         Make the first request in person if possible; your former instructor will be more likely to remember you.

·         Introduce yourself by name and try to point out something memorable you did to help your professor recall your performance.

·         Have a copy of the job description, scholarship information, grant requirements, or graduate school application ready.

·         Carry a copy of recent polished resume or promise to e-mail the requisite documents and any other information to help your recommender understand what you need.

·         Confirm any agreement by e-mail promptly, and set a firm yet responsible deadline by which the letter must be received, Don’t expect to get a letter if you ask at the last minute.

·         Gently nudge by e-mail to remind the recommender when the deadline is approaching.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Write and submit the first draft for Exercise 8.11 (Persuasive Claim) on page 253. Write as a correctly formatted letter.

Task: You want to straighten out this problem, and you can’t do it by telephone because you suspect that you will need a written record of this entire mess. Online you have tried in vain to find an e-mail address for guest relations at the Lexington location. Write a persuasive claim to Customer Service, Country Inn & Suites, 1310 Darby, Lexington, KY 40505. Should you include a copy of the credit card statement showing the charge?

As a regional manager for an auto parts manufacturer, you and two other employees attended a conference in Lexington, Kentucky. You stayed t the Country Inn & Suites because the company recommends that employees use this hotel chain. Generally, your employees have liked their accommodations, and the rates have been within your company’s budget

Now, however, you are unhappy with the charges you see on your company’s credit statement from Country Inn & Suites. When your department’s administrative assistant made the reservation, she was assured that you would receive the weekend rates and that a hot breakfast-in the hotel restaurant, the atrium- would be included in the rate. So you and the other two employees went to the restaurant and ordered a hot meal from the menu

When you received the credit statement, though, you saw a charge for $132 for thee champagne buffet breakfasts in the Atrium. You hit the ceiling! For one thing, you didn’t have a buffet breakfast and certainly no champagne.  The three of you got there so early that no buffet has been set up. You ordered pancakes and sausage, and for this you were billed $40 each. What’s worse , your company may charge you personally for exceeding the maximum per diem rates.

In looking back at this event, you remember that others guests on your floor were having a continental breakfast in a lounge on your floor. Perhaps that’s where the hotel expected all gusts on the weekend rate to eat. However, your administrative assistant had specially asked about this matter when she made the reservation, and she was told that you could order breakfast from the menu at the hotel’s restaurant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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